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The C^/yx, a common cone, which is compounded of from 

 eight to ten florets, confifting of Scales, which are uniflorous, 

 oppofite, ovate, convex beneath and gaping. 



The Corolla none. 



The Germen is fcarce obfervable. In the place, perhaps, of 

 Styles, there are numerous dots within each calycine fcale, 

 which are truncated, and concave at the apex. 



The Seed-veJJel, none but the globofe cone, which is fliut, but 

 gaping with orbiculate, angled, and targetted fcales. 



The Seed is a nut, which is angled, Iharp -pointed, and fmall. 



The Species with us^ are, 



1. CupRESSUs difticha. Virginian deciduous 



Cyprefs-Tree. 



This grows naturctUy in fwampy, low ground ; and 

 becomes a lofty tree, of feventy or eighty feet in 

 height, and three or four feet in diameter; dividing, 

 towards the top, into many branches, clothed with 

 fmall linear leaves, coming out upon all fides, yet 

 inchning to but two fides of the fmall branches; and 

 falling off in the autumn. The cones, of this kind, 

 are roundifti and near an inch in diameter. The 

 timber is valuable tor many ufes, affording great 

 quantities of boards, fiiingles, &c. 



2. CupREssus Thyoides. Maryland Bluc-ber^ 



ridd Cyprejs. 



This, by fomc means, hlas obtained the name of a 

 dwarf, yet it becomes a large tree, nearly equal in 

 height and diameter to the former. The branches 

 are covered with fmall ever-green leaves, much re- 

 fcmbling thofe of the Arbor Vitse. The cones are 

 about the fize of Juniper-berries, a little angular 

 and having many cells. The timber of this is fofter 

 than the other kind and applied to more general ufc, 



being 



